They are truly wonderful. The Cat Kid Comic Club is genuinely funny and blows the doors open on what a comic book can look like, and Dogman has real moments and delightful characters. Captain Underpants is just... well, it's precisely targeted at a young kid's sense of humour, and hits that target.

That is such a layered joke! I feel like you could build a whole course out of that 90 seconds, there’s so much depth in there to think about

I’ve definitely got people in my life like…well, everyone in this story in fact

Mine are a) less coffee, and b) less scrolling on social media, so I’m sure you can appreciate my reaction to seeing this post while simultaneously making another coffee and scrolling social media

Timeline serving up an incredibly on-the-nose example of this very thing just now:

“Buckle up” is just ahead of “You do realize…” and just behind “And you’re surprised?” in the canonical list of phrases that signal the onset of Dreadfully Online Nonsense.

Possibly your most relatable post yet

And some extra juice for those who started to build the play kitchen at 9pm thinking it might take an hour, and are slowly realizing you’re not getting to bed before 1am

It will be worth it

To be clear for the people who didn’t know this happened, it happened because the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final. It was not for, like, racial justice or anything righteous like that

After the riot in Vancouver (the one in 2011), people from all over the world grabbed their sharpies and wrote healing messages on the boarded-up shop windows downtown. Including this person who I hope is living a blessed life.

This is a concept I got from
@theferocity.bsky.social; keep the machine running, but don’t break it trying to power through a block, or just an off day. Just write something else. That is what causes those writing practices to collapse for me, and once they collapse they are so hard to rebuild!

The variation on this that works for me is to write every day, while not being at all strict about which thing I end up writing. I start with the Main Project, but if those words aren’t coming, I keep downshifting to easier things (prompts, character sketches, …) until words do come.

I did the same. Self-preservation instinct kicked in immediately. Everything was so self-evidently awful, and I knew The Discourse was just going to be a lot of angry people tearing everyone and everything down into a pit of despair and doom, and I did not want to get pulled down there

Wait is this a thing, I had no idea

Brb going to put hams on as many doorsteps as I can find, if you don’t have a doorstep that’s too bad, no ham for you, should have made better home choices

I am both super excited about exploring these titles, and dumbfounded that there is time enough to thoughtfully read so many books, in one year, that you can cull a list of twenty great ones. I struggle to read 3 or 4 in a year! I need to reevaluate my life choices!

These are amazing. I had no idea of ACD’s father, either his alcoholism and/or madness (if those are even separate), or his artwork. They’re really lovely.